Inky Journal Page Tutorial

Hi friends!! I hope you had a good weekend! We went exploring the coast a little yesterday and had a great day. Summer has been cold so far, so the water was pretty chilly, but the scenery was great. It is Monday and we have an letter challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog, 'I scream for...'. Be inspired by the letter 'I'.

It is no secret that I love ink, and I decided to do an inky page in my large Dylusions journal, using some new fun Distress products by Tim Holtz/Ranger. I love the colour combination I used here, and it worked great for a happy and summery page. Since the focus is on the inks, I also used a lot of stamps. I had fun with this one! And took a few step photos.

I recently got a couple of the new Custom Blend DIY Distress Pads and I have so many ideas for these. I am going to have to get some more. I always get a reinker everytime I buy an ink pad, it is a great tip, because you can reink a pad so many times. It will save you money compared to replacing the actual pad. I still have never replaced any of my Distress Ink pads, and I use them a lot, I just reink them whenever necessary. You can also do fun techniques with reinkers and I have an article on one such technique in the August issue of the Craft Stamper. 

On my custom pad, I added three stripes of Mowed Lawn, Twisted Citron and Squeezed Lemonade reinkers. 

Swipe the lid of the pad on the inked pad. It is so cool that you can do this. 

I used my custom made pad to stamp 'artist' on my page three times. Here you can see how it turned out, pretty cool. I started in my Small Creative Journal, but then decided to do a large page instead.

A game wheel was stamped three times with Mermaid Lagoon ink. Next, I used the great Distress Micro Glaze, applying it with my finger over the three game wheels and more partially over the stamped 'artist'. I inked the page with Mermaid Lagoon, Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Citron using an ink-blending tool. The glaze resists the ink. I also splattered the page using the cool large splatter effect of the new Distress Sprayer. When you press the trigger only halfway it creates water droplets. If you press it all the way, you get a fine mist. The glaze also protects whatever is underneath it from water.

Here you can see the effect of the glaze resist on the game wheel better. As you can see the application of the glaze wasn't perfect, and I kind of like it that way. The background was stamped here and there with a date background stamp. 

Harlequins were stamped with Twisted Citron, I love this new bright Distress colour. I also stamped some images from Tiny Things, with Jet Black ink.

The focal image was stamped on Ranger's Mixed Media paper and inked with the same colours used on the page. I cut her out and placed her on a strip of tissue tape so that it doesn't look like she is floating on the page.

The butterflies were also stamped with my custom inked pad.

I love this quote, by Albert Einstein, and decided to stamp it three times on the page, instead of once, which is what I would normally have done.

I also used some Small Talk stickers as journaling.

Now it is your turn to be inspired by the letter 'I' and remember that one random participant wins a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp. 

 

Thank you for visiting and happy crafting!!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Tim Holtz NATURE'S DISCOVERY	Tim Holtz PURELY RANDOM	Tim Holtz WINGED THINGS 1	Tim Holtz MINI HARLEQUIN	Tim Holtz ARTIST SCRIPT
Tim Holtz TINY TEXTURES	Tim Holtz ULTIMATE GRUNGE	Tim Holtz TINY THINGS	Tim Holtz MINI MUSE	Dyan Reaveley DYLUSIONS JOURNAL
Ranger MIXED MEDIA CARDSTOCK	Tim Holtz DISTRESS MICRO GLAZE	Tim Holtz CUSTOM BLEND Distress DIY Ink Pad	Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK MOWED LAWN	Tim Holtz Distress Ink TWISTED CITRON
Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK SQUEEZED LEMONADE	Tim Holtz Distress Ink MERMAID LAGOON	Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK	Tim Holtz Refill Distress Ink TWISTED CITRON Reinker	Tim Holtz Refill Distress Ink MOWED LAWN Reinker
Tim Holtz Refill Distress Ink SQUEEZED LEMONADE Reinker	Tim Holtz Idea-ology TISSUE TAPE ELEMENTS	Tim Holtz Idea-ology BIG CHAT Stickers	Tim Holtz Idea-ology SMALL TALK Stickers	Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER Ranger
Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS	Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT SHEET	Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL	Tim Holtz Tonic Craft SCISSORS

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